Athlete Quotes

Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike.

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Everything is practice.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance of our brain health. The time is now for us to make our brain the number one priority so that education and awareness can take effect, and begin to change the way we approach the health of our athletes from youth to professionals.

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.